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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
tion. Really, he writes (February 16, 1860), I am getting into the political circles in a style that surprises me. Did I tell you I should go on my stumping tour with letters from Governor Banks and all the notables here to all the notables out West? I shall probably be engaged in speaking for two months. Not steadily. Meanwhile, I am reading up desperately, hearing and sifting arguments on both sides. I shall prepare myself on either five or six points which I think will tell well in the ld like to do a little political campaigning again. Don't fancy, he writes to his brother, from my anticipating work in the political field that I propose competing for any political prize. I acquired bitter experience at second hand out West, and shall keep my life clear of that. I had rather be a kitten and cry mew, than such a Roman. But I am sure that, if I live till 1864, I shall grow furious at the old rascality, and shall want to do my part to cut it down, if I can spare a fo